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Made a little Mint sticker to put over my windows key :]

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Daily reminder that we do not actually live in a dystopian movie put the apocalypse down and back away slowly. You know when your cleaning a room and you pull everything out of it's draws to sort through it and you're like "what the fuck have I done I'm never going to be able to tidy all of this" I think that's the stage we're at in the world. Thanks to social media we've pulled out all the messed up shit from the cupboards of the world, it was always there but now we can see it and we're going to have to sort it all out we made this mess and we can fix it. Falling to the floor sobbing will not clean a crusty room. A group of people working systematically (preferably with music in the background) will.

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Rbing so any moots across the atlantic can be made aware this is something y'all can sign-

HEY GUYS!!

GUYS!!!

FRANCE HAS REACHED THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF SIGNATURES ON THE CITIZEN'S INITIATIVE AGAINST CONVERSION THERAPY IN THE EU!!

ONE COUNTRY DOWN, SIX TO GO!!

We also need still quite a few signatures in order to reach the one million required.

As to date, the six other countries with the most signatures are:

Spain - 38.72%

Finland - 30.31%

Ireland - 24.86%

Netherlands - 24.15%

Germany - 23.54%

Belgium - 23.09%

So yeah, still a long way to go, but we ARE slowly getting closer. Don't stop now! Don't let this stay within the community, either, if you have any friends or family who are open to queer rights, get them to sign, too!

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I've been trying to find an alternative joke to suicide jokes for ages now, the usual ones we've heard like "I'm gonna end up on the news"/etc just dont rlly work/click with me. But I just heard someone say "I'm gonna delete my minecraft world" and it's. It's honestly perfect LMAO.. It has stakes that actually exist, it's grounded in a reality of something that could feasibly happen but you're not ingraining into yourself a feeling of self-worthlessness when saying it, it's real progress that would actually suck to lose which gives it just the right amount of punch, and you're probably not gonna actually do it once you pull up the launcher and remember how much you love all your builds and progress. But if you DO actually delete your world you're still here and you still can rebuild, either with the same world seed or a new one. It works so iconically

fuck this shit bro. im gonna delete my minecraft world

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femslashfeb day 8: elegance! ☆

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post by @horatiocomehome / Zero Escape: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors (2009)

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HELLL YEAH I GOT MY BROTHER TO WATCH PARKOUR CIV I'M NOT ALONEEEE

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An embroidery of the Wikipedia page for embroidery.

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ULTRA THIN DRAGON DIVIDERS.

Tried something for my own blog and thought I’d share! These are thin and small, because I prefer that, but I’ll make some bigger ones soon, too!

Please consider to like or reblog if you use!

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harrowing post to see on the zero escape reddit with no context

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I love seeing a fandom get to the point they have AUs of AUs of side characters.

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returning to only using tumblr after being stuck in twitter for so long is amazing and very fulfilling- one issue I'm realizing the mutual I'm thinking of as I go to reblog a post isn't here and I can't make them see itt-- I was like "omg my moriohpsycho mutuals would LOVE this" and they're not here ,,, :sob:

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I apparently forgot to post this here!! This is the full artwork of my Twitter pfp hehehhee

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More WOF Adoptables!!

1. Night

2. Sand/Sea

3.Sand/Sea

4.Mud/Sea

5.Silk

6.Sea

7.Sky

If you already claimed one from the previous post you can't claim these only because I want everyone to have a chance to claim one

Tags: @harperfrost @feathered-wolf5 @cursiveinkwords @aroacedragongirl @jezynowachmura19 @oilith @pineapple-cheese-bread @yellow-computer-mouse @kinderartifact4

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Fun thing is designing what your OC's fursona would look like- and not what they'd look like if they were a dog or whatever- but what your OC personally would design to represent themselves regardless of how little it actually looks like them.

Like yeah this guy who's insecure would definitely design himself as a lion, not because he's brave, but just cause he thinks lions are cool and he wants to give it a bright green mane.

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Just one more thing.. 🕵️‍♂️

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Meet the seven new frog species we just named after iconic Star Trek captains!

Artwork by A. Petzold, CC BY-ND 4.0

At the right time of year along rushing streams in the humid rainforests that stretch the length of Madagascar's eastern and northern mountain ridges, otherworldly trills of piercing whistles can be heard.

Are they birds? Insects? Communicator beeps? Tricorder noises?

No, they're little treefrogs!

Boophis janewayae. Photo by M. Vences, CC BY-SA 4.0

Until recently, we thought all of the populations of these little brown frogs across the island were one widespread species, Boophis marojezensis, described in 1994. But genetics in the early 2000s and 2010s showed that there were several species here, not just one.

Now my colleagues and I have shown that they are in fact eight separate species, each with unique calls!

These whistling sounds reminded us so much of Star Trek sound effects that we decided to name the seven new species after Star Trek captains: Boophis kirki, B. picardi, B. janewayae, B. siskoi, B. pikei, B. archeri, and B. burnhamae.

Photos of all new species described by Vences et al. 2024. CC BY-SA 4.0

I subtly and not-so-subtly built some Star Trek references into the paper, but probably the best one is this one:

'Finding these frogs sometimes requires considerable trekking; pursuing strange new calls, to seek out new frogs in new forests; boldly going where no herpetologist has gone before.'

— Vences et al. 2024

There’s a real sense of scientific discovery and exploration here, which we think is in the spirit of Star Trek.

Of course, it doesn't hurt that there are at least two Trekkies amongst the authors (including yours truly). As fans of Star Trek, we are also just pleased to dedicate these new species to the characters who have inspired and entertained us over the decades.

On a personal note, this marks a milestone for me, as it means I have now described over 100 frog species! I am very pleased that the 100th is Captain Janeway's Bright-eyed Frog, Boophis janewayae (if you count them in order of appearance in the paper)—she is probably my favourite captain, and I really love Star Trek: Voyager.

You can read more about the discovery of these new species on my website! You can also read the Open Access paper published in Vertebrate Zoology here.